"Steven J Sobol" wrote in message
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R J Carpenter wrote:
99.5 JAMN 995 DC Washington (WJMO) DC'S JAMMIN' OLDIES
Just out of curiosity, who owns WMJO-FM these days? Infinity?
Since April 2001 they are WIHT - hot. Owned by CC.
Quoting from DCRTV.com:
http://www.dcrtv.net/mediawf.html
99.5 WIHT WASHINGTON DC contemporary
In April 2001 station owner Clear Channel flipped 99.5 from "Jammin' Oldies"
to a "hot" rhythmic urbanish contemporary hit format. The WJMO calls became
WIHT. The urban oldies format (as WJMO) only lasted two years - being born
in April 1999. Before that, 99.5 spent more than three decades playing
relaxing music as WGAY. WGAY played a laid back mix of adult contemporary
tunes which evolved from elevator music of the 1970s. The old WGAY of the
1960s and 1970s was the ultimate "relaaaaaxing" elevator music station. Its
ads featured station programmer Bob Chandler leaning way back in a recliner
with his station's "easy" music playing in the background. For a while in
the early 1990s, WGAY switched its calls and became "Bright 99.5" WEBR, but
listeners didn't accept the more up-tempo music. Clear Channel owns WIHT.
The first station on this frequency was WCFM, owned by the Cooperative
Broadcasting Association. The station went dark for a while before WGAY
arrived.
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Also from DCRTV:
July 21, 2003 PGC's 1st Again, TOP Jumps To 2nd
Once again urban WPGC-FM was in 1st place (up from winter's 2nd) in the
spring Arbitron quarterly radio ratings for DC, out on 7/21. In the overall
age 12+ numbers, all-news WTOP placed 2nd (up from 3rd). Adult urban WMMJ
ranked 3rd (down from 1st), with adult urban WHUR 4th (up from 6th), urban
WKYS 5th (down from 4th), classical WGMS 6th (down from 4th), news talk WMAL
7th (holding level), smooth jazz WJZW 8th (up from 9th), with a tie for 9th
between country WMZQ (up from 13th) and oldies WBIG (up from 12th). Hot talk
WJFK-FM was 11th (up from 14th), hot adult contemporary WRQX 12th (down from
8th), rhythmic contemporary WIHT 13th (down from 11th), adult contemporary
WASH 14th (down from 9th) in a tie with rocker WWDC (up from 16th).
[My comment -- WMMJ is a Class A station, the rest of the FMs are B.]